Weekend Box Office Archives - Rolling Out

It was a pretty topsy turvy Thanksgiving weekend at the box office. Despite good efforts from both Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur and the Michael B. Jordan-led Creed, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 2 managed to remain on top despite a 50 percent dip from last week. The Good Dinosaur had the third worst opening ever for a Pixar film, but…

Matt Damon’s space epic, The Martian, made easy work of the little competiton it had at the weekend box office to easily stay in the driver’s seat for the second week in a row. With only two new entries into this week’s top ten and its only projected test coming from the Warner Bros. big budget take on the…

The Perfect Guy proved to have the perfect opening weekend, as it narrowly held off M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit to claim the title of number one movie in America this weekend. Reports indicate that an overwhelming female audience of 68 percent helped power The Perfect Guy past The Visit with 58 percent of that audience…

Though it was a close call, Straight Outta Compton managed to prevail over the surprise sleeper hit War Room to remain atop the weekend box office for a third consecutive week. With over $134 million earned at the domestic box office, Compton has officially netted a profit of over $100 million as the film’s budget was only…

Let the Minions madness begin. It was a great run for Jurassic World while it lasted but the laws of physics state that what goes up must eventually come down. After the film’s impressive month-long stay atop the weekend box office, the Chris Pratt led latest installment in the Jurassic franchise has been cut down to size by…

During a weekend in which most moviegoers apparently stayed home, sci-fi film “Chappie” landed the top spot.

(Photo courtesy of IMDB) Though not quite the triumphant return to the box office that he and studio execs were probably hoping for, Will Smith’s action comedy Focus still managed to claim the top spot at the weekend’s box office. While falling far short of past spectacular openings for Smith, Focus pulled in a respectable $19.1…

(Photo courtesy of IMDB) Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper is proving to be one of the most surprisingly dominating movies in recent history. The gritty war drama took in $31.8 to remain in the driver’s seat this weekend. Its total was enough to dethrone the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour as best grossing…

(Photo courtesy of IMDB) After three weeks as king at the box office, The Hobbit has been taken down by Liam Neeson’s Taken 3. The third installment in the action thriller series raked in $40.4 million over the weekend to outdo Ava DuVernay’s Selma by almost $30 million. DuVernay’s critically acclaimed look at the historic…

(Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures) Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies remained the No. 1 movie in the country,according to box office numbers, but its grip may be slipping. Angelina Jolie’s second directorial effort, Unbroken, gave The Hobbit a a run for its money but ended up about $10 million short…

Chalk another one up for Peter Jackson as his film, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, made easy work of its second closest competitor to easily take the weekend box office. Though taking in slightly less than estimations, Hobbit’s $56.2 million was still enough to give it an impressive $350 million worldwide to dominate…

(Photo: Twentieth Century Fox Film) Despite it being another slow weekend at the box office, there was some movement in the top ten resulting in a new number one film. The heavily criticized biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings was able to dethrone The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part 1) and take over the number one spot…

It was not a good weekend for the movie business. In what is being called the lowest selling weekend of the year, there was little movement at this weekend’s box office. The only new entry was Egyptian horror The Pyramid, which brought in $1.3 million to land at the No. 9 spot. The Hunger Games:…

(Photo by Murray Close – © 2014 – Lionsgate) Not much movement at this weekend’s box office as The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part 1) made light work of its nearest competitor, newcomer Penguins of Madagascar, by doubling its total intake with a few million left to spare. Holding steady at No. 3 and 4 were…

As expected, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part 1) totally ran over any and all competition as it raked in over $100 million dollars more than its closest competitor over the weekend. Animated ensemble Big Hero 6 and sci-fi piece Interstellar maintained their chart position from last week holding steady at No. 2 and 3 while earning $20…